They were dropped for the rest of the week and picked up on the following week of 9/17.

As for story-lines having to be changed I specifically recall GH and PC having to rewrite storylines because they involved terrorism. SOD and SID had some pretty bad timing as well, as the 9/11/01 of SOD and SID featured Brooke and Taylor from B&B and the taglines where "B&B Explodes!" and "Old Enemies Declare a New War!" respectively, and it was noted by the media at the time.

They were dropped for the rest of the week and picked up on the following week of 9/17.

As for story-lines having to be changed I specifically recall GH and PC having to rewrite storylines because they involved terrorism. SOD and SID had some pretty bad timing as well, as the 9/11/01 of SOD and SID featured Brooke and Taylor from B&B and the taglines where "B&B Explodes!" and "Old Enemies Declare a New War!" respectively, and it was noted by the media at the time.

Oh wow . Talk about weird!

GH dropped a story where Stavros Cassadine was gonna plant a bomb that exploded the hospital

Megan McTavish has the WORST timing sometimes. Her biotoxin story involving the Cassadines and Spencers on GH had to be scrapped due to 9/11. Years before that, she planned for Janet Green to detonate a bomb at Trevor and Laurel's wedding on AMC; however, b/c of the Murrah Building bombing in OKC, they had to change the contents of Janet's package from a bomb to a gun.

I wonder what she might have had cooked up had been she writing a soap during the recent Boston Marathon bombing.

I know the east coast soaps were affected. I remember Kelley M. Hennesly saying something like she had to walk to her home from brooklyn because the studio sent everyone home. I would like to see a special or interview on how the moods and reactions were from the casts of ATWT, GL, OLTL, and AMC.

There was sort of a special back in 2011 about Pop Culture and the 9/11 attacks and a few OLTL stars were interviewed about that day. I know Robert S. Woods was one of the people interviewed. He was talking about how one of the guys that worked on set was also a cop and ended up getting killed. That's why his picture stayed in Bo's office until the ABC finale.

Other than that. I remember that all programming was interrupted including the soaps during the whole week. That's about it. I was in middle school then and didn't get home in time to watch the soaps. My mom just told me that they weren't on.

I was in middle school as well and I don't remember any of the DAYS storylines at the time being scrapped or anything (although it could be true about the plane stuff with Nicole, Victor, etc) but I do very clearly remember the entire DAYS cast singing (I think) 'America the Beautiful' at the end of one of the episodes that aired the following week when the soaps returned. It was very well done. The singing was lead by Kyle Lowder and Nadia Bjorlin. I recently saw it on YouTube a while ago. I think you can still find it there.

I remember Guiding Light showed more family scenes and closeness... and I remember that Jerry Van Dorn did a heart-felt speech at the end of an episode, with several members of the cast in silence around him. Then I remember that the next 4th of July in 2002, they did a huge speech about freedom and love of that nation at the Bauer Barbecue.

Oh yeah, I forgot about Days' 2001 Christmas special had a memorial of 9/11 there with the cast hanging up ornaments dedicated to the victims of 9/11 in particular FDNY and NYPD.

It was also wisely done as a stand-alone episode where the cast addresses us as themselves instead of their characters, so that no matter what potential preemption may occur, they could still air the Christmas episode on Chistmas.